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These skills are greatly enhanced by your tactile abilities

Massage

Keyboard/Piano

Tactile trinkets like Rubics Cube/Figet Spinners

Pottery/Sculpture

Construction

Climbing, Obstacle Courses

Cleaning/Washing

Cooking

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But it's interesting that there's no widely recognized fine art medium where physically feeling is the core communicated experience

Then again texture is half the experience of flavor in food

Touch response is pretty much entirely what sounds of pre-electronic musical instruments are, making electronic sound being simulations of touch response in a way

Fashion is also dominated by visual appeal, the uncomfortableness of women's heels for example

> But it's interesting that there's no widely recognized fine art medium where physically feeling is the core communicated experience

Because “fine art” is mostly a distinction drawn based on how distant a thing is from practical, tactile experience fornthe audience (its also why culinary arts aren't, contrary to your list, usually included), anchored in elitism that equates physical engagement as pedestrian and lower class.

If you can't put a “do not touch” sign on it, its viewed as practical art and not fine art.

Lockpicking is an obvious hacker hobby! Very zen...

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